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OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH 



OKT THE FESTTVAS. OP ST. PATRICK, 



M^RCH 17th, 1825. 



RICHARD W. HABERSHAM 

A MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY, 



TOGETHER WITH OTHER PROCEEDINGS OF THE DAY. 

Jfe dubiia, nam vera vides-^Virg, 



SAVANNAH ..^ 
W. T. WILLIAMS. ^^fWs^v^-'i^ 
1825. 



AT A REGULAR arARTERl? MEETING 



Held at the City Hotel, on Friday Evening, the 17th| 
December 1 824, it was 

Resolved 

That Alexander Hunter, A. B. Fannis 
and William Roche, be a committee in behalf of this 
>Society, to solicit one of the members thereof, to deliv» 
er an Oration on St Patrick's dav, and that the said 
committee make the necessary arrangements in having 
the same carried into effect. 

Extract from the minutes 

ALhX. HUNTER 

8ecretary2 

At an extra meeting of the Hibkrnian SooiETYheld 
on Thursday Evening the 17th February 1825. The 
Committee appointed to procure an Orator for St- Pat- 
^ck's day 

Report 

That they have succeeded in obtaining the 
consent of Richard W. Habersham Esq. to be iheir 
Orator for the occasion. 

Ea:tract from the minutes 
ALEX. HUNTER 

Secretartf. 



ST. TMTB1€WS DAW. 

This day being Ihe anniversary of the tutelary Saint 
of Ireland, the Hibernian Society, assembled at the City 
Hotel, at 10 o'clock, A M and proceeded to the reg- 
ular business of the day, when ihefollowing members 
were re-elected officers for tlie ensuing year : — 
James Hunter, Pres. I Alex. Hunter, Secr^y, 

Geo. B. Gumming, Vice do. \ Saml. Wright, Treas^r. 
The following members were appointed the standing 
committee for the ensuing year. 

M. Cleland, I John Guilmartin, 

John Dillon, I Matthew Hopkins. 

W. P. Hunter, | 

At 12 o'clock the Society formed in procession, head- 
ed by the President and two past Presidents, with the 
society's standard borne by Mr. Roche supported by 
the Stewards, and accompanied by a Band of music, 
playing national airs. In tliis order they proceeded to 
the lodgings of Governor Troup, who there joined the 
procession with his suite, and proceeded with it to the 
Theatre. The lower tier of boxes, with the exception 
of one, was filled with ladies, the upper tiers being de- 
voted to the citizens generally. The pit was occupied 
by the members of the Society, and by the M'Intosh and 
Xiiberty troops of Cavalry, and the Georgia Hussars, in 
full uniforn. In the centre box sat Governor Troup, 
next to whom, right and left, were his aids. Cols. Jack- 
son and Bra-ilsford, and on the same seat sat Captain 
Hees, of liberty County, and Col Shellman, of this 
city, soldiers of the Revolution. An American patriotic 
air, and Erin go Bragh, were then played by the band, 
after which the Oration was delivered by Richard W. 
H/iBERSHAM, Esq. The Society then retired in the same 
order in which they marched to the Theatre, escorting 
the Governor and hia suite, to the quarters of the former, 
aftei which they proceeded to the City Hotel, where they 
were dismissed until the afternoon. 



Savannah, iSth March^ 1825, 
To R. W. Hahershatn Esq, 
Dear Sir, 

Permit me in heJialf of the 
members of the Hibernian Society, of the City 
of Savannah f to solicit for publication a Copy 
of the Oration delivered by you before the So- 

eietyp on St, Fatrick^s day. 

MS. HUJSrTEU 

Pres, Hib, JSoc. 



®m^^i®^« 



We liave met together my friends, to cele^ 
trate tlie birth day of Patrick, the tu elarj 
Saint of Ireland. Here are associated Irish 
Catholics and Irish Protestants^ pursuing one 
common object with one common feelings 
the relief of their distressed and destitute breth- 
ren: and who, after a year devoted to tlie coun- 
try of their adoption, have set apart this one 
day, as an offeringto the land of their nativity. 

There is something in the annual returns of 
great national festivals, which among every 
people produces an intensity of love towards 
the country of their birth, unfelt at other times; 
it seems to make ever^ man, no matter how 
cold and selfish, a patriot for the moment : and 
to call into action all the best feelings and af- 
fections of the heart. Among most nations, 
and more especially in our own, the returns of 
these festivals are annual renewals of national 
pride, national glory and national love. Among 
the Irish, it is something more than this, ^tis 
the feeling of a patriot glorying in his country, 
hut weeping over her sufferings. To the exile 
in particular, the return of this day is a subject 
of peculiar interest and feeling: distance but 
increases his love and strengthens and vivifies 



the recollections of his early home. And who 
is there in this assembly that does not sympa- 
thize with him? is there one who does not re« 
collect with affection the home of his Infancy ? 
one so base as not to love his native country ? 
when all our early hopes are blasted, when all 
our other affections are withered, when all 
other feelings which bind us to life are dead ; 
still we look back to our infant years with a 
BK lancholy pleasure, and delight to gaze upon 
them as the last glimmerings of our departed 
happiness. 

^Tis with a like feeling that the exile looks 
back to his country : ^tis with such mingled 
emotions he recalls the times that have past, and 
the scenes that have long gone by. The fields of 
his infant sports, the mountain and the lake 
which first delighted his eye and quickened 
his fancy into life, the smoke from his native 
cottage slowly curling upon the evening sky, 
and the voices of his early friends mingling 
in the vesper-chaunt and swelling into melody 
amidi^t the tombs of his fathers, standing in 
their deathly stillness— how sad, how sweet, 
liow sacred, how solemn are these recollec- 
tions: how much more sad and sacred when 
you feel that they are the recollections of 
scenes, which few of you can ever again hope 
to revisit 

But there are other recollections which are 
even more painful than these. The recollections 
of the emotiojis with which you parted from 



those scenes of joiir first affeciloiis: the last 
grasp of the friend —the last look of love— 
tlie last embrace —and tlie last farewell ! 

__ _-0h ! 

"'Tis a sad sound,— that lingering last farewell 
« When friends must separte— perhaps forever. 
But ye poor exiles of Eriii^ even in those .try- 
iiig moments ye had your consolations: yes, ye 
had the sweet consolation of that relig;ion 
which your beloved saint gave to your fathers: 
and ye had the consolation of feeling that you 
were going to a land where tliat religion could 
be enjoyed in peaee antl in safety. What tho^ 
a vast ocean rolled before, yet that ocean lost 
its terrors when you rejected that it was the 
grand barrier between oppression and freedom; 
and that its waves would bear you forever be- 
yond the reach of tyranny and persecution. 
And yoo were not deceived — the spirit of St. 
Patrick guided and supported you, through the 
dangers of those troubled v/cMys. When you 
reached our shores the genius of universal tol^ 
eration greeted you, and liberty smiling amidsfe 
our native forests, welcomed you to her arms. 
Yes, you are welcome, welcome to this fair in- 
heritance of your children, welcome to the 
protection of our free institutions, welcome to 
share our liberty and our happiness, and wel- 
come to mingle your voices with ours in praise 
and adoration. 

When St. Pafrick gave to your iiithers at 
Tara, the blessed tidings of salvation, how 
little did he suppose that the profession of thaf, 



faith would become the ostensible excuse for 
the oppressien and murder of their children; 
yet it has been so, and it is so now. That 
faith which is charity itself and its end peace 
and salvation; which teaches all mankind to 
love one another; the profession of that faith 
has been the excuse for all the tyranny and all 
the oppressions which have been heaped up- 
on Ireland for ages ; which have blighted her 
]&elds^ changed the temper and character of 
her population, and substituted discord and 
ferocity^ for peace and refinement. 

When Patrick came into Ireland, he found 
a country gifted beyond most others with all 
natural advantages; and a people civilized 
beyond the age in which they lived : a peo- 
ple^ brave, generous^ enlightened: and free, 
proud of their antiquity, and glorying in their 
ancestry ; boasting the same origin with the 
Phoenicians and Cartbagenians, they spoke 
the same language with Hannibal and wielded 
the same weapons of war, which shook tlie 
Roman power at Cannse. Refined in feeling 
and in taste, they listened w ith rapture to the 
songs of their poets,and caught with enthusiasm 
the wild measures of their native melodies, as 
they trembled on the strings of their ancient 
harp; that harp which was soon to raise its 
voice in the glorious psalmody of David, and 
like the dying swan^ to sing its last and sweet- 
est strain. - 



10 

When tlie arts and sciences of the Eomans 
liad perished or disappearecl with their em^ 
pire^ and the rest of Europe was involved in 
Ignorance and darkness^ the science of Ireland 
alone escaping the rage of the barbarians, was 
gleaming in the midst of that darkness, the 
last remnant of civilization And trom this 
small and remote, but beautiful island, from 
this Ultima Thule, from this garden of tlie 
Hfesperides, was Europe destined to seek for 
lier lost arts and her lost learning. 

No wonder that among such a people, th6 
doctrines of Christianity were rapidly propa- 
gated and eagerly embraced ; and that while 
other missionaries were struggling against ig- 
:borance and barbarism and ferocity, the task 
of the Irish apostle was comparatively easy 
and pleasant. No wonder that there no fires 
W^ere lighted for the faithful, no chains clank- 
ed in the dungeon of the christian, and no 
martyr triumphed over the rack and the flames. 
No wonder that there the jouth of other na- 
tions went for improvement ; that Alfred there 
imbibed that knowledge and virtue which were 
to fix the foundations of his future greatness : 
that there the Anglo-Saxon Oswald sought for 
a learned and pious clergy to teach Christianity 
to the english pagan. 

And no wonder, that among that people 
and to that time, do we trace the existence of 
a representative goyeniinent ; a form of govern^ 



11 



meni wliicli has been improved and bcauiified 
and expanded in this western hemisphere, un- 
til it has become the object of envy or admira- 
tion to the nations of the old world, and of 
love and devotion to millions of freemen in 
the new. 

Well may the children of Ireland look back 
to the early history of their country with pride 
and gratulation. And well may they now 
look upon her fallen state, and curse the au- 
thors of her misery and degradation. Her 
name lost, her independence destroyed, her 
fields whitened with the bones of her offspring, 
her people reduced to want and to beggary, 
her bravest and her wisest corrupted for her de- 
struction, or exiled from herbosom^ or dragged 
to execution and to death. 

My friends; on the last anniversary of this 
day, one of her exiles* told you the melan- 
choly story of her wrongs. With a truth 
worthy of the historian, v^iili an indignant 
spirit naturally excited by what he himself had 
witnessed and suffered, with a feeling honor- 
able to himself as a patriot, in a strain of elo- 
quence which has seldom been surpassed, yet 
with a charity which none but a christian could 
have exercised, did he unfold to your view 
the blood stained scroll on which her history 
is inscribed : that scroll requires no aid from 
fancy to deepen its horrors ; peruse which of 

*Et. Rev. Bishop England 



12 

lier historians you will^ and his every page is 
a tragedy ; her history is a tragedy of five cen- 
turies in duration. 

From the reign of Henry Plantagenet^ when^ 
the English first landed in Ireland^ even unto 
the present time^ the policy of England toward 
that unhappy country has remained unchang- 
ed;to fatten on her substance and to brutalize and 
empoverish her people. During a long success- 
ion of ages^ even to the end of the 8th Henry, 
it was no crime to expel an Irishman from his 
lands, to destroy his fields, to burn his habi- 
tation, or to put him to death while pursuing 
his peaceful occupations. And yet — to teach 
his language was punished with banishment^ 
and for an Englishman to marry an Irish wo- 
man was made high treason by act of pa^rlia- 
ment. Made outlaws by statute, her people 
were forced to become outlaws in character: 
deprived of the means of subsistence, they 
w ere forced to depredate upon the possessions 
of their oppressors : driven to their rocks for 
shelter, and to their caves to perish, they were 
forced by despair and madness to turn upon 
their pursuers. 

But did this tyranny cease with the 8th 
Henry ? did it cease with the Tudors ? did it 
cease with the Stuarts ? did it cease with the 
accession of the house of Hanover? has it 
now ceased? No matter what monarch ascend- 
ed the throne; no matter liow loyally support- 



cd by tlic Irish; no matter if their blood had 
streamed to sustain his title, no matter what 
religion became dominant in England^ Ireland 
still drank of the bitter chalice which the hand 
of the tyrant or hypocrite pressed to her lips, as 
the offering of her salvation. No change of cir- 
cumstance gave her permanent relief, no exten- 
sion of knowledge afforded to her more than 
a mere amelioration of suffering. She resem- 
bled a beautiful garden filled with beasts of 
prey. Grod had created her a paradise, but 
man converted her into a hell. 

The reign of Queen Anne has been called the 
Augustan age of England ; and Ireland con- 
tributed her fair portion of talent and of science 
to give it that glorious appellation. Yet there 
was no reign more fertile in expedients to ruin 
and degrade her, and while Addison was im- 
proving taste and morals by his spectator^ 
while Swift was lashing corruption by his sa- 
tire ; while Chesterfield was refining manners 
by his letters and Pope was raising a stupen- 
dious monument to his own fame, and to that 
of his age by the translation of the Iliad ; 
while a host of philosophers and poets were 
instructing and amtising her court and her cap- 
ital by their genius ; the iqueeu herself w as 
putting her signature to a statute for the gov- 
ernment of Ireland, which would have cast a 
deeper shade of enormity over the edicts of 
Diocletian. The 8th of Anne is thus describ- 



14 

ed in tlie eloquent languaeje of Burke. ^* It 
was a macliine of wise and elaborate contriv- 
ance^ and as well fitted for the oppression, im- 
poverishment and degredation of a people, and 
the debasement in them of human nature itself^ 
as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenui- 
ty of man. 

But '' I will not enter into the nauseating 
detail of this new penal code," there are parts 
of it which curdle the blood with horror, and 
sentences which it would chill an Inquisitor to 
pronounce. 

By the statute of ist. Georgelst. the catholics 
of Ireland were punished if they enlisted in 
the English army ; yet these are the men who 
in our day, have stained every battle ground 
in Eur<^pe with their blood; who followed 
and supported Wellington, when he flung 
the red cross of England as a shield over the 
prostrate independence of Spain 5 and who 
stood on the field of Waterloo as the bulwark 
of the world. Yet amid these insults and in- 
juries, amid all these privations of natural 
rights, amid all these miseries wantonly in- 
flicted upon an unoffending people, did their 
humble solicitations ascend to heaven, for the 
safety and happiness of their sovereigns, even 
while their tears were trickling on their violat- 

ed altars. 

*^ Amid the general rejoicin^^ at the access- 
ion of the 8d. George^ Ireland was alone 



15 

doomed to weep/^ she stood apart from the 
rest of the empire, like a black cloud " upon 
a summer day cf festival." This reign em- 
braces the most interesting period of modern 
history. The American and French revolu- 
tions ; the establishment of the colossal power 
of Buonaparte : the advancement of free prin- 
ciples and the prostration of ancient institu- 
tions and ancient abuses. 

At the commencement of this sera, England 
stood like Rome, the centre of a mighty em- 
pire, exulting in her own freedom and pros- 
perity, while her praetors and her pro- consuls 
were trampling on the rights of man, in every 
quarter of the globe. India was bleeding un- 
der her rapacity : America was remonstrat- 
ing against her usurpations : and Ireland was 
crushed with her oppression, like the quiv- 
ering victim under the wheels of Juggernaut. 

But mind 1 ad now become superior to mat- 
ter ; and feelings and opinions could no longer 
be repressed by mere brute force. America 
tired of supplication, shook off her chains, and 
Ireland, reclining in confidence upon her army 
of brave volunteers, in a language too ' calm 
and dignified to be resisted, demanded her 
rights from the hands of the spoiler. Alarm- 
ed by the loss of America, England yielded 
to her demands; yes, what she ought long be- 
fore to have granted from policy and humanity, 
she yielded to fifty thousand Irish patriots^ 



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resting in portentous silence on tlieir arms* 
like the dark outline of an approaching storm. 

Ireland oxves the grant of her independence 
to her brave volunteers^ and it v^ill be found 
in all countries^ that they are the best guardians 
of the constitution; the mere militia, is a body 
without discipline or force, and however wil- 
ling, still unable to make an efficient defence: 
the volunteers combine all the zeal of the cit- 
izen, with all the knowledge and efficiency of 
^regulars, and have not only the will, but the 
power to protect tlieir country. With us they 
are truly the guardians of our rights, property 
and lives, and ought to be supported and cher- 
ished by all that is respectable and patriotic in 
ihQ land. 

England yielded the independence of Ire- 
land to the demand of her volunteers, almost 
at the same moment in which the American 
army wrested ours from her grasp at York- 
town. But how different was the independence 
obtained by the two countries ! to us, it came 
like an angel from heaven, smiling through 
our land, healing our wounds and diffusing 
peace and liberty and happiness throughout 
^11 our borders : to them it came^like the 
serpent in the garden of Eden, fair to the eye, 
but with fraud in its hearty to deceive and des= 
troy. 

Separated by the Atlantic from England, 
we were far removed beyond the danger of her 



17 

seductions ; but Ireland divided from her only 
by a narrow channel, sooq found that the grant 
of her independence was a cheat and a cruel 
mockery. While we had obtained all that we 
asked and could demand, Ireland gained 
nothing but a respite from her sufferings ; and 
the tears of joy were scarcely wiped from the 
eyes of her patriots, when they perceived, that 
their country then was only where America 
had heen, when standing in calm remonstrance 
at the throne of the British monarch;-^* person- 
al liberty insecure, chartered rights infririged, 
the trial by jury frequently suspended, the 
freedom of the press violated, a large standing 
army in time of peace, an odious stamp act, 
taxation augmented to the general ruin of the 
nation,'' and a parliament filled with place- 
men and pensioners, whose voice was a mere 
echo of the mandates of a British minister. 

Such was the state of Ireland after England 
had cheated her into submission by this farci- 
cal grant of her independence. Such he» sit- 
uation, when the grand drama of the French 
revolution opened upon the astonished world. 
Monarchs trembling upon their tottering 
thrones, crouched before the legions of the re- 
public, or fled to the loj> alty and affections of 
their subjects for safety and protection. 

Again it became necessary for tbe English 
government, to avail itself of all the strength 
and resources of the empire to preserve its ex- 



is 

istence : and again an opportunity was afford- 
ed to the patriots of Ireland, to restoie to their 
country her long lost ri4*;hts. 

But, it was not the will or the intention of the 
British minister to grant those rights; he had not 
the magnanimity to make a voluntary concession; 
and the Irish people could no longer be cheat- 
ed into silence and submission. Divide and 
govern was his last resource, and it was a- 
dopted and pursued with a reckless enormity. 
Availing himself of the religious differen- 
ces of the people, he excited a jealousy and 
an acrimony of feeling among the various sects, 
widch could only be satiated by mutual de- 
struction. Taxing them to starvation, he ar- 
rayed the poverty against the wealth of the 
nation. Resorting to bribery and corruption^ 
he mhde their parliament the humble instru- 
ment of his will. Atsd when by these various 
means the kingdom was reduced to a state of 
violence and ruthless ferocity before unparall- 
eled, he brought in the army to crush the 
whole into one common ruin. Military tri- 
bunals were established to adjudge the victim 
by military law; yea, individuals without the 
colour, or even the forms of law^, but secure in 
the royal pardon, dragged their fellow crea- 
tures to execution; and the prerogative which 
was granted in mercy^ became the shield of 
the murderer. 



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No one, no matter how innocent or how 
merito! ious, was safe from the grasp of these 
sii nielli nary monsters. And when at length 
humanity revolted, and these hideous and sum- 
mary proceedings could no longer be t(derated, 
then was the wretched suilerer dragged be- 
fore courts (miscalled courts of justice) where, 
although the trial was more formal, the con- 
viction and punishment were as certain. 

Without the shadow of a crime, hundreds 
were thrown into dungeons, where they were 
left to fester in darkness, until a moral cor- 
ruption prepared them for witnesses,or a physi- 
cal corruption prepared them for their graves. 

Do you doubt the truth of this picture? look 
back bu fifty years ago to the history of Amer- 
ica. Do you doubt, that what a British ministry 
could do here, it would not do there? is the col- 
ouring too high for our own experience ? Here 
the power to do mischief w^as weakened by 
distance andlimiteil by a scattered population : 
there, it was increased by vicinity, and acted 
upon a crowed. Here, revenge was defeated by 
victory: there, it rioted to satiety among a help- 
less and prostrate people. 

Such was the situation of Ireland at the 
close of the eighteenth century : weakened by 
internal dissention, crushed by violence and 
outrage, worn down by a desperate but ineffec- 
tual struggle, without hope of aid, or power of 
further resistance, she sunk,w^eik and bleeding, 
and exhausted into the monstrous embrace of a 



20 

British minister: and the name of Ireland was 
stricken from the roll of nations. 

Here her disastrous history closes, and the 
act of union lias made her a province of Eng- 
land. She has a nominal representation, with 
an actual and burdensome taxation : an es- 
tablished clmrch preying upon her vitals : a 
stand log army to enforce submission by sum- 
mary punishment, and a discontented people 
groaning in poverty, or writhing under a load 
of civil and religious disabilities ; with noth- 
ing to console or ilieer in tie past, and little 
to hope for or gladden in the future. 

Her talents and her genius, and her chiv- 
alry', all gone to swell the ma^-js of English 
fame and English power. Her Goldsmiths 
and her Moot es are English poets : her 8her- 
idans and her Grrattans and her Burkes and 
lier Currans are English orators : her Wel- 
lington is an English soldier, and even the 
fame of Castlereagh as a state?- man, renders no 
requitfjl to his country for his paricide. 

Let England destroy the African sLive tratle; 
let her ministers acknowledge the indepen- 
dence of Mexico and Colombia; let her rich. 
and her noble and her brave, lavish their treas- 
ures and their blood in the cause of Corinth 
and Athens; let her bible n.nd missionary so« 
cieties ovestnrn the idols and extinguisli the 
fires of paganism, and still she will have made 
a poor atonement to God and to man for her 



2i 



uffeiices. Althongli she may rusli on with eu» 
tbusiasm in the cause of liberty and reli- 
gion ; yet like the crusaders after the sacking 
of Jerusalem, she will kneel bt'fore the holy 
sepulchre, covered with the stains of her re- 
cent violences. If she be sincere in her phi- 
lanthropy, why not extend her humanity to 
Ireland? if she be sincere in her love of lib- 
erty, why not relieve the Irish from bondage? 
if she be sincere in lier Christianity, why not 
emancipate her catholic subjects? 

There is nothing so honorable to the age in 
which we live, nothing which so peculiarly 
distinguishes it from all that has preceeded, 
as the friendly communion of the difierent de- 
nominadons of christians in the great work of 
salvatlG-i. Intolerance is every where becom- 
ing an object of disgust or reprobation ; and 
sectarian prejudices are every where disappear- 
ing like the mists of the morning. Religious 
persecutions have almost era ed to exist, and 
the Inquisitions of Hpain, of Portugal and of 
Italy, have crumbled into dust, beneath the 
pressure of liberal and enlightened principles. 
Yet England, who justly boasts the superior- 
ity of her constitution beyond those of the other 
nations of Europe; w ho prides herself on the 
freedom and liberality of her institutions; 
whose people excel in arts and in learning ; 
whose merchants have extended her commerce 
to the remotest corners of the globe; whose no- 



22 

blcs and whose soldiers are devoting them- 
selves to the cause of freedom in Greece and 
America ; and whose clergy are kindling the 
holy flame of Christianity amid the ruins of 
idolatry : this Enidand supports and sustains 
ao inquisition io Ireland, ruinoos to the peace^ 
the happiness, and moral im|»ro\ement, of a vir- 
tuous and generous race of people. 
In this long detail of historical facts, it has not 
been my object to excste feeling, bist to render 
justice to an injured people; to relieve tlse coun- 
try of my ancest<»rs from unmerited obloquy, 
and Io rescue the character of her children, 
from the charge of turbulence, indolence and 
ferocity ; a charge which is often, but I hope 
thoughtlessly made, even by some of those, 
whose fathers in this very land, and by the 
same government, were almost forced to become 
savag;es, from the excess of her tyranny and 
cruelty. And what people would not be tur- 
bulent if constantly harrassed ? and what 
people would not be indolent if there were no 
security for property ? and what people would 
not be ferocious, if driven from their homes and 
hunted like wild beasts ? what would have 
been our character, if the war of the revolu- 
tion had continued to the present time, or even 
if it had terminated, when it did, in the subju- 
gation of our country ? It is a trite c^bserva- 
tion, but not the less true, that the character 
of the people is stamped by the government 



23 



under which they live; and its tnith is no 
where better exemplified than in the United 
States : here the farm of the Irish emigrant is 
as neat and flourishing as that of any otj.er; 
his log hut in the wilderness is as much the a- 
bode of peace an<l contentment; he commits ho 
treasons^ he is guilty of no devastations, but he 
loves the country which has received and cher- 
ished him: and when the late war thi*eatent>d 
to waste our fields and to destroy our unioo, 
our Irish brethren rallied around the constitu- 
tion with an enthusiastic ardour worthy of 
the countiymeft, of Montgomery: they stood 
upon its ramparts with a devotion, wortlij 
of that patriot and hero, whose heart throb- 
bed only for Ireland, and who shed his blood 
on the alar of her liberty. 

" Oh ! breath not his name, let it sleep in the shade, 
"Where cold and unhonor'd, his relict, are laid; 
" Sad, silent and dark, be the tears that we shed, 
" As the night dew that falls, on the grass o'er his heaii^' 

But the time will come, when that name 
shall appear like the hand writing on the wall; 
and the time will come when ** his epitaph may 
be written.'^ 

There is a redeeming spirit in Ireland whicli 
will yet *^ exalt her to that proud station in 
the world, which Providence has destined her 
to fill ;" and the recent abortive iitteiupt of the 
ministry to convict the brave and generous 



24 

O'Connell of treason, is an alarming warn- 
ing to iier oppressors, that that spirit is al- 
ready rekindlid. 

" Like the bright lamp that lay in Kildare's hoi j shrine 
" And burn'd through long years of darkness and storm, 
** Erin ! Oh Erin ! thus bright thro' the tears 
" Of a long night of bondage thy spirit appears." 



^ote — *Ms many farts of this address may appear to 
those unacquainted ivitli the history: of Ireland^ to be 
"mere declamatioriy the author begs have to remark, that 
he has stated no fact, nor has he made any assertion, 
which is not supported bq good authority. The reader 
is referred to the Book of Sir John Davies, Attorney 
General of England; Col Vallancey-s Vindication of 
the ancient History of Ireland; to Plowden's History 
of Ireland; to the English and Irish statute books; to 
debates m the British Parliament ; to the JSTewspapers 
of the day, and to the Rmg^s speech made at the opening 
of the present Parliament of Great Britain; as the au- 
thorities on which the author relies. 



25 
FESTIVAL OF ST. FATRZCH. 

At 4 o'clock, the Society with a great uuaibei' of dis- 
tinguished guests sat down to a sumptuous dinner, pre- 
pared at ihe City Hotel in Miller's usual style. Among 
the members present were recognized Col. Tattnall our 
Representative in Congress, and W. C. Daniell, the 
Mayor. The Guests who honored the occasion with their 
pieseuce were. Governor Troup; Col. Achilles Murat; 
General btewart, ®f Liberty County; Major O'Connor; 
Col. Jackson, and Col. Brailsford, aids of the Governor; 
Lieut Monroe, U. S. A.; the officers ot the Cavalry, 
now on duty ; the Clergymen of the city, tho Rev. Mr. 
Carter, Rev. Mr Howe, Rev. Mr. Browne, Rev. Mr. 
Bolan ; and the Rev. Mr. Joyce, of Darien. 

The transparency of the Society was exhibited in front 
of the Hotel during the evening. The company spent 
the evening in the utmost harmony and good fellowship. 
Many appropriate and patriotic toasts were drank, with 
music from the Band and the Irish pipes, and mterspers- 
ed with numerous songs. The " feast of reason and the 
flow of soul " was continued uninterrupted until a late 
hour, when the society broke up. 

TOASTS OF 

THE. B^lBTS^HXiaX SOCl^TX. 

«'EEIN MA VOURNEEN! ERIN GO BRAGH !" 

1. Tlie Day.'—Msij it ever find us true to the object 
of our association. Charity and Benevolence. 

2. TJie memory oj St PafHcfc.— Irishmen caii never 
forget that to him they owe the origin and disseminatio7i 
of the Christian Doctrine in their land. 

3. The Republic of the United States. — The refuge 
from civil and religious Intolerance — She has the grati- 
tude of Erin's exiles. 



26 



4. Ireland! 

'■^ Wert thdu all that we wish thee, great glorious and 

free. 
First flower of the Earth and first gem of the sea. 
We might hail thee with prouder with happier br jw. 
But Oh ! could we love thee more deeply than now." 

5. The .Xations Gzigsf.— We greet him with " Cead 
milthe failthe." 

6. The memori! of Uobert EmmeL — ^The Patriot 
who would have freed his country; The .Martyr whose 
death established the truth, that Tyranny reigned over 
the land. 

7. Counsellor O^Connell. — ^The Patriot who has fear- 
tessfy proclaimed the wrongs of his ctmntry; the virtuous 
man vv^ho has triumphed over the e^br ^ of co ruption. 

8. The State of Georgia. — May she ever prove true 
to the cause of Republicanism, and hostile to Tyrants. 

9. The Shamrock. — While we look at it, we hope that 
th«- Land of which it is the favourite plant, will yet be 
free. 

10. Education and national Liberty .-^The only hless- 
ings that Irishmen would ask: or that their Governors 
could confer. 

11. The memories of Burke, of Grattayif of Sheridan 
and Curran: together with the present glory of her sons ; 
what need tha> Ireland should ask more to ward the per- 
petuation of her fame ? 

12. Theobold Wolfe Tone. — He lived a Republican— » 
He died a Hero. 

13. The allied Powers of Europe.-^Th^ avowed en- 
emies of the Rights of Man; May the fabricks of their 
tmity soon crumble, and the Divine rights of Kings be 
overwhelmeil in the ruin. 

TC>l.UXTEl.Ti. TOASTS. 

By the President. — the Orator of the day, Richard fF. 
Habersham, A worthy scion from a good stock. 



27 

The Vice-President — ?^m. H. Crawford, XJnwWXmg 
to compromise, and scorning to intrigue, he returns to 
his farm, honored and esteemed by the nation. 

The Governor. — Ireland, Gratitude tor her services, 
resentment for her wrongs, and warm hearts for every 
thing connected with her welfare and happiness. 

Gen. Stewart, — The immory of Gen. Montgomery, 
Who fought and died for the liberties we now enjoy. 

Col. Tatnall — The memory of Emmet — 'Tis better to 
die a freeman, than to live a slave. 

The Mayor — In the language of the orator of the day, 
I ask " Is there a man so base as not to love his native 
country?" 

Col. Murat. — William Sampson. 

Maj. O'Connor. — The mud and blood of the Holy M- 
liance ! O that the Shilelah of Irishmen, and the Rifle 
of Americans had fair play at the villains. 

Lieut Monroe. — Irishmen — Their feelings ever chord 
"with the tones ot Freemen- 
Lieut Footman — Ireland, May the day soon arrive 
when her press shall be free, and her sons enjoy liberty 
of concience. 

The Rev. Mr. Boland. — The free institutions of the 
United States, Where all religion is exclusively enjoyed, 
Jlone prohibited, and all protected. 

Richard W. Habersham (the orator of the day :) 
The mem"ry of our deceased brother. Vol David M' ? ' r- 
Tnick, Let us twine one leaf of cypress in our festive 
wreath. 

Capt. Maxwell. — The Hibernian Society, Its object 
to relieve the distressed Irish emigrants, may its means 
be commensurate with its end. 

Cornet King. — Te Sons of Erin» Always firm to 
their adopted country. 

Capt. Law, of the Georgia Hussars. — Iceland, If 
happiness and prosperity have been denied her, the ge- 



28 



nius, talent and courage, with which she has irradiated 
the world, prove her deserving of prosperity and of hap- 
piness. 

Capt. Matthews— May the sons of Eiin ever meet a 
hearty welcome on the shores of America. 

Capt. Cooper— Religious Liberty to all the nations of 
the Earth. 

Capt. Pooler — The memory of William Orr. 
Dr. John Cumming — The memory of J5?/rKC— whose 
firmness of purpose, patience in suffering, and fortitude 
in death, appalled the minions of oppression, and shook 
the very throne of their powerful master. 

Joseph' V. Bevan, — Our Guests, Their presence re- 
minds us of the customs of "old Ireland." Hospitality 
is the middle leaf of the Shamrock ; and, the gates of 
the castle of Howth stand ever open, by day and by 
night, for the reception of the stranger. 

Mr. Wright— The memory of Gen. Montgomery. 
P. ^i'Cormick — Ireland, May the standard of Liberty 
soon be erected o'er thy generous soil, and with more 
than a magnet's power, give a new direction, and anoth- 
er Tone to the unhappy councils of thy still more gene- 
rous sons. 

Maj. Funnin—Our worthy fellow citizen, the first 
President of this Society, John Cumming. 

Mr. Morrison.' — Daniel O^Connell, A spot of azure 
in a cloudy sk}^ 

Alexander Hunter, Secretary — Daniel •ippling, A 
son of Georgia, a soldier who met the foe and gained at 
Sandy Creek imperishable hono! s. 

Mr. M'Allister. — General John Mcintosh, though ab- 
sent from our festival, always present in our affections. 
V. T. Matthews — Our Country, May an Irishman 
never want a home in it, nor a stranger a habitation. 

P. M'Dermott — John Macpherson Berrien, His splen- 
did talents have been acknowledged before the Supreme 
Court, which gives us an earnest that he will be an able 
representative of the state in the Senate. 



29 

P. Marlow. — -Ireland my native land, and America 
the land of my adoption. May we all soon see the day 
when they will be as firmly united by the ties of politi- 
cal friendship, as we are this night joined in the mag- 
niinimous coniinemoration of the illustrious St. Patrick, 
Patron of Ireland, who by his piety and learning, iliu- 
miiied the literary world. 

Mr. Guilmartin — The Volunteer Corps of Georgia, 
Mr. Prendergast — The memory of the great and goad 
Benja7nin Franklin, His virtues and patriotism render 
him worthy of being imitated by young and old. 

Wm. Tighe — My native land. Where may religion 
soon supplant persecution, and discord and strife give 
way to harmony; then they dare be free. 

Henry Macdonnell — Ireland in the time of Boru, May 
those Halcyon days soon return, when beauty and in- 
nocence may walk throughout the Island unmolested, 
protected only by the virtue and gallantry of its inhabi- 
tants. 

Hugh Archerr — The Constitution of the United States, 
A guarantee of civil and religious liberties to all mankind. 
Thomas Fulton — The land that was moistened by the 
blood of Emmet and the two Shear es — May the day 
soon arrive when that land shall be emancipated from the 
tyranical yoke of Great Britain. 

W. C. Cuthhert—Capt. E. F. Tattnall— As sl citi- 
zen, honored-— as a friend, loved — and as a commander, 
always ready to be followed by his brother soldiers. 

William Koche— Co/. E. F. Tattnall, Our fellow 
member and worthy representative to (^ongress, may he 
long continue the faithful sentinel of an enlightened 
people. 

[After the delivery of this toast. Col. Tattnall rose 
and delivered a spirited and pertinent address, which 
was received with much applause.] 



so 

Wm. M, Craig — Greene and Pulaski, For years neg- 
lected — yesterday recollected — may all who subscribe 
to the erection of monuments to their memory, do it with 
as free a will as they both served their country. 

M. Hopkins.— -The surviving remnant of those V»eroe9 
who braved war and famine in establishing those inesti- 
mable rights in which we participate — may they live long 
to enjoy the proud recollection of having participated in 
such a glorious cause. 

Mr. Laughlin— -G?enpra? Andrew Jackson, The patriot 
hero, he has well revenged the wrongs of his persecuted 
father, 

John Dillon — The memory of Gen, Lachlan M'^IntosJi, 
An honor to his native and an acquisition to his adopted 
country. 

Dr. John Gumming, after the Governor had retired-— 
His Excellency Geo, M, Troup, The lively interest he 
has expressed for Ireland, consoles the feelings and 
warms the heart of every true son of Erin. 

By the President — the Right Reverend Doctor Eng* 
land, an honor to the country that gave him birth, art 
acquisition to that of his adoptien, 



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